Following the announcement that Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go will open the 54th LFF and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours will close it, the full line-up has been released today. With a total of 197 features and 112 shorts being screened over 16 days, it's a not inconsiderable amount of cinematic joyload to get stuck into...
Highlights include Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Mike Leigh's Another Year, with new films from Alejandro González Iñárritu (Biutiful), Anton Corbijn (The American), Ken Loach (Route Irish), Takashi Miike (13 Assassins) and John Sayles (Amigo), Thomas Vinterberg (Submarino), Gregg Araki (Kaboom) also likely to be popular.
Strands include New British Cinema, French Revolutions (featuring Tell No One director Guillaume Canet's second feature Little White Lies and Kristin Scott Thomas in In Your Hands), Cinema Europa (the best of European flicks) and World Cinema. There's also the best of recent conservation work in Treasures From The Archive and some unusual pieces in Experimenta.
There's so much though, and I haven't yet mentioned the highly anticipated (in certain circles) return of Patrick Keiller with the Vanessa Redgrave-narrated Robinson In Ruins, so be sure to check out the full programme here.
The festival runs from 13th-28th October at venues across London.
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